Simon Tuttle Atherton (May 19, 1803 – October 7, 1888)[1] was an early American Shaker, who became highly successful on behalf of his own community,[2] in selling herbs in and around Boston, Massachusetts.

The Shaker community in Harvard, Massachusetts began when a group of dissenters from the local state-funded church, left and set up the "Square House", having affiliated themselves with Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shaker denomination, when she visited Harvard, Massachusetts.

He borrowed the saying: “A good name is better than riches” and used it as his motto for the communities herb industry, which is quoted, even today, on the Shaker Workshops page.

The Shaker day journals during his era recorded his efforts “Simon goes to Boston.” By 1835 the herb industry in Harvard was a major business.

Efficient production, drying, and marketing of high-quality herbs resulted in worldwide sales of over 18 tons in 1855.

He is listed in the A-Z of Shakers as a “notable shaker”,[5] along with Tabitha Babbitt, Grove Blanchard, Elijah Myrick, William Leonard, Augustus Grosvenor, Roxalana Grosvenor, Olive Hatch, Hannah Kendall and Annie Walker.